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    6 hours ago 100%

    None of these fucking goblins have learned that analogies aren’t equivalences!!! They break down!!! Auuuuuuugggggaaaaaaarghhhh!!!!!!

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  • buttcoin Buttcoin Hi my name is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Nakamoto
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    1 day ago 100%

    navigating this space without alignment with larger corporate players

    stares into middle distance, hollow laugh

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    swlabr
    2 days ago 100%

    DHH: today I will RP as a high schooler writing an essay for software class about a program you should use

    full disclosure: I use vim and honestly I don’t even know why anymore. Maybe it’s because I had a brief, trivial interaction with Bram Moolenaar (RIP king) in which he closed a bug that I opened by mistake, and I imprinted on him for some reason.

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  • techtakes TechTakes OpenAI does not want you delving into o1 Strawberry’s alleged “chain of thought”
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    swlabr
    2 days ago 100%

    Enter these into your data banks, you automaton:

    • The chinese room was brought up as a tangent to a tangent, why are you doubling down on mansplaining it?
    • nobody was even talking about whether or not it is a good or bad concept, we were just talking about the problematic dude that made it popular
    • you are in a space that is critical of AI. The chinese room was brought up by name. You think we don’t know what it is and that you need to explain it?
    • literally all you had to do to seem even remotely reasonable was to not try mansplain AGAIN and yet you did. I wrote what I said as a joke and you went ahead and turned it into prophecy. You buffoon!!!
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    swlabr
    2 days ago 100%

    Scientists: weird, we didn’t slip this piece of paper saying “mansplain the chinese room thought experiment” through the door, and yet that’s all the room seems to want to do. I guess we just have to conclude the room is an idiot?

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  • techtakes TechTakes "The Subprime AI Crisis" - Ed Zitron on the bubble's impending collapse
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    techtakes TechTakes AI-Generated Code is Causing Outages and Security Issues in Businesses
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    swlabr
    2 days ago 100%

    Welcome to my new startup where we train LLMs on compiled binaries. Now you can just prompt and get a complete executable, no coding knowledge needed. We value our company at $5b, product launch date indeterminate

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    2 days ago 100%

    It’s much more awkward as a subject of the crown. I tried explaining the game “telestrations” as pictionary + chinese whispers before I had this knowledge. I didn’t know!!! It’s even right there in the name!!! I swear I’m not racist!!!

    (Note: I am of chinese origin and have heard my extended family mangle messages through the telephone. So both names are real to me)

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  • techtakes TechTakes Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 22 September 2024
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    freeasm FreeAssembly Post your IT redundancy tales here
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    swlabr
    3 days ago 100%

    I have pretty much the exact opposite of redundancy right now, i.e. I am the single failure point for most of the IT in the company. Send help

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    3 days ago 100%

    Chinese whisper

    Complete tangent but outside of the commonwealth, this game is referred to by the much less racist moniker “telephone”

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  • techtakes TechTakes Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 22 September 2024
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    swlabr
    3 days ago 100%

    Gaslighting? What are you talking about? There’s no such thing as gaslighting. Maybe you’re going crazy

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  • techtakes TechTakes Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 22 September 2024
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    3 days ago 100%

    Pinker: looking through my photo album where I’m with people like Krauss and Epstein, shaking my head the whole time so the people on the bus know I disagree with them

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  • techtakes TechTakes Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 22 September 2024
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    swlabr
    3 days ago 100%

    Who could have predicted that liberalism would lead into scientific racism and then everything else that follows (mostly fascism)???

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  • buttcoin Buttcoin You should not set memecoin creators on fire! They're doing it to themselves. You can punch them in the face, though. It's marketing.
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    4 days ago 100%

    incredible, cryptocurrency has democratised (looks at cards) hunger-games style exploitation of human life and dignity for profit

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  • techtakes TechTakes OpenAI releases new Sora demo videos — with a few less glitches
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    swlabr
    4 days ago 100%

    I hear 90% of the dev time was spent adding "please don't generate any elsagate content" to the prompt over and over

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    4 days ago 100%

    have they tried writing better prompts? my lived experience says that because it works for me, it should work as long as you write good prompts. prompts prompts prompts. I am very smart. /s

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  • techtakes TechTakes remembering PG's "lisp would have stopped 9/11" essay from September 2001
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    4 days ago 100%

    I hate hate hate this so much. This is precisely the kind of smug, reductionist, dunning-kruger, every-problem-is-a-nail-and-programming-is-my-hammer type of shit that fuels my hatred of not only TESCREAL but pretty much everyone I meet in STEM.

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    techtakes TechTakes Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 15 September 2024
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    4 days ago 100%

    It sucks to have to decolonise your darlings. It sucks that a lot of our most enjoyable stories are copaganda. Even the most redeemable stories about cops have probably inspired people to become cops.

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    7 days ago 100%

    Like a century of science: yeah we’re pretty sure where carbon emissions come from. Everyone needs to slow the fuck down. There’s no need to pontificate about the specifics, especially if that somehow produces even more emissions. That would be catastrophic, you see.

    MSFT: hold my beer

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    1 week ago 100%

    When [musk’s new] supercomputer gets to full capacity, the local utility says it’s going to need a million gallons of water per day and 150 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 100,000 homes per year.

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    1 week ago 100%

    My heuristic is basically: until we can easily control the environment of earth, terraforming will not be on the horizon. Given that we are hell-bent on driving off of as many cliffs as we can, I’m pretty happy to continue thinking that we’ll never get off this rock proper within the ol’ lifespan

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    techtakes TechTakes California governor: Generative AI will fix homelessness — based on a 2023 sales pitch
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    1 week ago 100%

    if it’s not in video form

    Actually this isn’t enough. It needs to be read by a monotone TTS or deepfaked voice with minecraft, subway surfer, or fortnite gameplay underlaid to penetrate brain rot

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    techtakes TechTakes Promptfondler drama: Shumer’s ‘no-hallucination’ Reflection 70B AI turns out to be two other models in a trenchcoat
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    1 week ago 100%

    Nobody should be surprised that a politician in the west is proposing that we funnel more money into private companies rather than just fixing the root cause.

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    According to my former left-libertarian roommate: also the scumbag scion of a political dynasty I think? I didn’t look into it because I had no reason to doubt

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    Playing [Texas’s] energy market has become more profitable than mining bitcoin www.economist.com

    > On the hottest and coldest days, when demand for electricity peaks and the price rockets, the bitcoin miners either sell power back to providers at a profit or stop mining for a fee, paid by ercot. Doing so has become more lucrative than mining itself. In August of 2023 Riot collected $32m from curtailing mining and just $8.6m from selling bitcoin. Archive link: https://archive.md/O8Cz9

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    techtakes TechTakes In this post, I wrote about the sad experience of having a friend use AI to wish me a happy birthday. https://robertkingett.com/posts/6627/ #AI #Blog #Blogging #Blogs @fuck_ai
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    As someone too cowardly to explore their kinks. I lack context. Now you have provided data to reinforce my reticence.

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    Microsoft says EU to blame for the world's worst IT outage www.euronews.com

    Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU. I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

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    Buttcoin swlabr 2 months ago 95%
    VoughtCoin the-boys.fandom.com

    TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. [They occasionally tweet](https://xcancel.com/VoughtIntl/status/1812170121881727002#m) about it. It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.

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    SneerClub swlabr 4 months ago 100%
    The Star Fox-style roguelite whose dev refused to use AI voices to cut costs is adding an entire "anti-capitalist revenge" campaign about a cat-girl destroying AI www.gamesradar.com

    Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.

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    Buttcoin swlabr 5 months ago 100%
    “Crypto is already a giant video game — and we are here to make it more fun and rewarding.” medium.com

    The video game in question: ![](https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/3fade300-cbd2-4f2a-b418-86678ea63435.jpeg)

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    SneerClub swlabr 5 months ago 100%
    "The Better Angels of Our Nature" Part 2: Campus Lies, I.Q. Rise & Epstein Ties - If Books Could Kill www.buzzsprout.com

    Followup to [part 1](https://awful.systems/post/1056266), which now has a transcript! As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)

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    TechTakes swlabr 10 months ago 100%
    “We couldn’t find enough people for our Ponzi scheme, bye”

    Just a lil tidbit of news of some web3 based company going away.

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    SneerClub swlabr 10 months ago 100%
    Ex-OpenAI board member Tasha McCauley is deep state because she married Joseph Gordon-Levitt www.lesswrong.com

    Found this because an article on Helen Toner popped up in my feed and I wanted to find out more, and boy did I find out more.

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    bless this jank swlabr 11 months ago 100%
    Refreshing on mobile logs you out sometimes

    Not sure how much needs to be said here. Sometimes I come back to a tab with a.s open and refresh, then get logged out. I’m using chrome on iOS but this might be reproducible on other browser/platform combinations.

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    SneerClub swlabr 1 year ago 100%
    Roko’s Basilisk gets a shoutout on CONAF, hypothetically dooming many unsuspecting listeners to… nothing, basically. www.earwolf.com

    Discussion on AI starts at about 17mins. The Bas(ilisk) drop happens at 20:30. Sorry if ads mess up my time stamps. I think this is the second time it’s come up on the show.

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    TechTakes swlabr 1 year ago 100%
    A (non-tech) comedy podcast I like covered FTX! www.earwolf.com

    Don't expect a good or deep analysis of FTX or any TREACLESy stuff here.

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